HOSTING

[jamaicarocks]

I Built my website and using win 2003 to host it .My connection is 512dwn and 332up .It works fine on the lan very fast.Will all of this change when i publish it on the internet and how many people can be accomadated at a time.My server is a old a 256mb ,,1.6GHz processor,,

[TransEdGe 03]

Well , what kind of site is it ? Are people going to be downloading stuff off of it or jus surfing around it , cuz th edling would kill your websites speed and number of users that would slow it up.

[JimPrice]

You'll be just fine.  I've been freelance developing Internet based business applications and hosting them for the last 4 years.  The biggest line I used for hosting to multiple locations was a synchronous 512K line.  I served 4 locations with 10 + users in each location and it worked just fine.

If your site will use database connections, put the database on the same server as the web site to reduce connection latency.

The one thing I did do to make sure no one user saturated the line was to throttle connections per user.  File downloads were the only activity that engaged the throttles, and in the real world I never had to many users downloading at once.

Just make sure your site runs clean...ie optimize your images, empty unused variables right away, and close db connects as soon as they're not needed.  There's a lot of poorly written sites out there that could run great on half the bandwidth if they cleaned up their messy code.

[jamaicarocks]

THANX ALOT!!!!